life is a really long movie.
Dear Livejournal and various multitudes of readers,
I have neglected you for a while. My apologies.
What's great about livejournal, or any blog for that matter, is that there are no blank pages. Unlike a real diary or journal, there are no untouched, possibly unturned leaves pressing the average diary "logger" to fill their virgin whiteness with thoughts, hopes, dreams, philosophies, rants. Needy white pages are how diary/journal and writing utensil companies prosper. Having livejournal, there were no empty pages beckoning me or calling my name. That is why I have put my livejournal days on hiatus. Then why am I here? It's simple. Pure boredom has brought me back.
Anyway. Now that I've wasted your time with that last paragraph, I decided to waste some more. S'more, if you will. Oh... will you? Yeah... I want s'mores, too. After you're finished reading this post, we will go make some.
You know what I have a problem with? One word---That. Confused? Well, I have a problem with what I just did. Did you see? I responded to the question by stating how many words my answer was going to contain followed by the actual answer. Yes, when people do that, it is an issue. First of all, other than letting people know you are an able counter, what's the point of telling anyone how many words you are about to answer with? Second of all, it wastes everyone's time; you have to count your words first, then after you verbalize your word count and your answer, the people around you have to then themselves count your words in order to check for credibility and counting ability. It's just a long, tedious process. Finally, this word-counting is discriminatory towards wordy answers. Once an answer surpasses the single-digit word count, they are no longer preceded with "(insert number) word." I admit it sounds awkward to answer "How are you so fine?" with "Twenty-two words. I go to the gym five times a week, maintain a healthy diet, plus my parents were pretty handsome themselves," but anything even slightly discriminatory should not be legal. Oh, and I really hope you just didn't count that twenty-two word thing. Is it really twenty-two words? I just guessed. If you haven't counted already, I bet you're dying to now, just to see how off my guess was. Heh...
Sigh... suddenly, I am having writer's remorse; I regret a good weight of what I wrote and how I wrote it. But in order to stay true to you reader(s), I decided to leave it unedited.
Well, I'm tired and I'm off to bed. Goodnight... don't be surprised if it takes me a year to update again. Oh yeah, and we'll get s'mores sm'other time.
Truly Yours For Now,
Terrence Salonga
I have neglected you for a while. My apologies.
What's great about livejournal, or any blog for that matter, is that there are no blank pages. Unlike a real diary or journal, there are no untouched, possibly unturned leaves pressing the average diary "logger" to fill their virgin whiteness with thoughts, hopes, dreams, philosophies, rants. Needy white pages are how diary/journal and writing utensil companies prosper. Having livejournal, there were no empty pages beckoning me or calling my name. That is why I have put my livejournal days on hiatus. Then why am I here? It's simple. Pure boredom has brought me back.
Anyway. Now that I've wasted your time with that last paragraph, I decided to waste some more. S'more, if you will. Oh... will you? Yeah... I want s'mores, too. After you're finished reading this post, we will go make some.
You know what I have a problem with? One word---That. Confused? Well, I have a problem with what I just did. Did you see? I responded to the question by stating how many words my answer was going to contain followed by the actual answer. Yes, when people do that, it is an issue. First of all, other than letting people know you are an able counter, what's the point of telling anyone how many words you are about to answer with? Second of all, it wastes everyone's time; you have to count your words first, then after you verbalize your word count and your answer, the people around you have to then themselves count your words in order to check for credibility and counting ability. It's just a long, tedious process. Finally, this word-counting is discriminatory towards wordy answers. Once an answer surpasses the single-digit word count, they are no longer preceded with "(insert number) word." I admit it sounds awkward to answer "How are you so fine?" with "Twenty-two words. I go to the gym five times a week, maintain a healthy diet, plus my parents were pretty handsome themselves," but anything even slightly discriminatory should not be legal. Oh, and I really hope you just didn't count that twenty-two word thing. Is it really twenty-two words? I just guessed. If you haven't counted already, I bet you're dying to now, just to see how off my guess was. Heh...
Sigh... suddenly, I am having writer's remorse; I regret a good weight of what I wrote and how I wrote it. But in order to stay true to you reader(s), I decided to leave it unedited.
Well, I'm tired and I'm off to bed. Goodnight... don't be surprised if it takes me a year to update again. Oh yeah, and we'll get s'mores sm'other time.
Truly Yours For Now,
Terrence Salonga